dozen

英 ['d?z(?)n] 美['d?zn]

CET4TEM4考研CET6中高頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?dozens;

1. 音譯“打”，因為諧音是“打人”，所以音譯時取了“打人”的“打”字。

dozen 十二個

來自拉丁語duodecim, 十二，duo, 二，decim, 十。

dozen: dozen: [13] Dozen traces its ancestry back to the Latin word for ‘twelve’, duodecim. This was a compound formed from duo ‘two’ and decem ‘ten’. This gradually developed in the postclassical period via *dōdece to *doze, which, with the addition of the suffix -ēna, produced Old French dozeine, source of the English word.
=> duodenum
dozen (n.): c. 1300, from Old French dozaine "a dozen," from doze (12c.) "twelve," from Latin duodecim "twelve," from duo "two" + decem "ten" (see ten).

The Old French fem. suffix -aine is characteristically added to cardinals to form collectives in a precise sense ("exactly 12," not "about 12"). The dozens "invective contest" (1928) originated in slave culture, the custom probably African, the word probably from bulldoze (q.v.) in its original sense of "a whipping, a thrashing."

1. Ernest Brown lives about a dozen blocks from where the riots began.: 歐內斯特·布朗住在離騷亂發生處幾個街區遠的地方。

3. He sat behind a table on which were half a dozen files.: 他坐在一張放有6個文件夾的桌子后面。

4. The project has gone through nearly a dozen years of planning.: 該項目已歷經近12年的規劃。

5. The riot left four people dead and several dozen injured.: 暴亂中四人喪生，數十人受傷。